One could go round town on Jung and Campbell not to mention the Norse sagas. There’s also Milton and his illustrator Blake.
Rather than get into deep mythology (and
water) it’s enough really to say that primitive rhythm has a double standard;
it can go both ways, good or bad, wise or evil – cf “devi” or deity-devil.
The double standard is what you see in the rough gardening of Monty Don (HB143). Slugs or caterpillars are “bad” but the balance of the garden requires them to be there in sufficient numbers to be “good” by attracting feeding birds.
This double standard is the physical reality of flesh and blood and bone that the modern order has dismissed from the Garden of Eden (supposedly).
Without the double-standard there is another standard which, as I’ve been
saying for awhile, can become a type of logical junk. This could be known as
the “zero standard”, where instead of a physical ambiance of irregular lines
and a sort of mish-mash of roughness with some order, there is number and algorithm.
This is the mainstream order as represented by such new towns as Neom in Saudi Arabia - or Babcock Ranch in USA TofF2
A double standard has to let in foulness, which could be something like stagnant water (Jaime Hernandez P144). It could be just plain manure or dried-out for fuel (see Buffy quote HB70)
All these things basically metamorphose, so there is an ever-changing situation. In a land of pure order, the scents of metamorphosis that can waft on the breeze are repugnant to “them”. That is, the heads that run the efficient systems.
Except it’s not really efficient; the human organism requires some exposure to germs in order to acquire immunity and thus health – especially in free-ranging kids!
Therefore, the entire logical order that is science-based is fairly fallacious. The primal serpent has not been ejected from our modern scene, merely replaced by profane meat (see prev.) There’s no denying primal rhythm – associated psyche – and it can be found in the 60s hippy era or Jamaican dub or
A society without primal rhythm is bound to be weak and psychically dependent on profane meat. Some places are better than others (see Detroit Drama3) but overall the picture is of increasing numerical dependency in a profane algorithmic universe of junk. Junk or “zero-standard”, neither strong nor wise nor evil.
The primeval and sinuous metamorphosis of materials is strength and lustiness. There is no such thing as pure hygiene in terms of health, only dirt and cleanliness. Hygiene, or logical junk, is simply the ego-compulsion that attaches number to the removal of dirt. Ironically, junk is lack of dirt! This is born out by the previous stuff on Fulling (HB60) where stale urine and mud were the first detergents used by early societies.
The reason is
that dirt is strong, cleansing, as is the prairie on the fertile ground. All
that’s fairly obvious so why do “they” not get it?
Because they don’t want to; they are true believers in number and subservient to
their egos. In the land of the ego (head) they tell us stories to keep us
subservient to number and the proclamations of politicians and economists.
Stories that tell us lies and abnormal facts about DNA and "clean meat" ( HB143
). Abnormal facts are the new normal that tells us fertility on the range is not a necessary strength.
The order they promote is infertile and this ushers in a new norm of infertile stock run by algorithms; a licentious base for sexualised gadgets of profane lust.
The abnormal facts of production deprive work of the strength of roughness and give us smoothness and psycho-sexual dependency. Facts that are a type of weakness that doesn't have the balance and proportion of things that run and hunt in the fields and forests.
The news we are given is factual, but not true in terms of balance and proportion. In order for that to happen the society we inhabit has to have a roughness and lack of order that allows in a primeval reality that is strong psychically, that gives physical health to kids. That has wisdom and sin if you like.
Our societies are neither psychic nor physical; they have only one standard, of number represented by the monetary order of the dollar. The old vernacular America and the old world had a dual standard of roughness – of freedom and order – that Howard and the Texas Junto were more or less in league with as rustic westerners.
Here’s hoping that Trump loses since he is just one more pseud in a society of pseuds. His so-called strength is a lie born of hi-tech and low-psychology; he lies with numbers because they have a pseudo accuracy (see Slick quote HB62/1 and Lindsay Anderson Outtake 6). If Biden gets in at least that leaves an opening for West in another four years. A rural upswing - fiddlers and cowboys out on the moonlit prairies.